While modern day Country artists will appear onstage with blue jeans, white t-shirt, and a very expensive black cowboy hat (for men), or extravagant evening gowns that look like they were designed for the Academy Awards (for women), there was a time in Country Music where sequins were in fashion, for both men and women, and the more sequins, the better. This was the direct result of one man, known in the business as "Nudie."

The most infamous Nudie suit, one embroidered with marijuana leaves, pills, and naked women, that Gram Parsons wears on the cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin LP, was actually designed by Manuel Cuevas, head tailor at Nudie's shop in the 1960's (Cuevas stills designs Nudie suits today in Nashville). Original Nudie suits that don't get archived in museums are highly sought after by new generations of musicans (including Beck and Chris Isaak).